[FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

[Gary Schiltz]

"Trump supporters are not individualists, they are just people trying to
recover privilege they *didn’t earn *and now see slipping away. "

Reminds me of a radio commentator I used to listen to, either Mike Malloy
or Peter Werbe, I don't remember which. He always said that George W. Bush
was "born on third base and thought he hit a home run.".

On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 5:44 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> David writes:
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> “And it would serve "the opposition" to get a clue about the fact that
> the vast majority of Trump supporters do not suffer from racism, sexism,
> 'genderism', "me-first-ism," etc. Instead recognize that their primary
> affliction is individualism - and even libertarian-ism (despite some
> obvious contradictions from the religious among them) - along with
> corollaries of "anti-government control-ism,"
> "personal-responsibility-ism," and
> "my-values-are-just-as-valid-as-yours-ism."
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> The racism and sexism arise from the false supposition that personal
> responsibility is all that is required to thrive.   They fail to
> acknowledge that public policy can level the playing field and give
> everyone a fair chance to develop their own values and priorities for their
> life – to become *individuals*.     Trump supporters are not
> individualists, they are just people trying to recover privilege they *didn’t
> earn *and now see slipping away.   They are worse than conventional
> conservatives because they lack any moral center.    They want to see
> regressive norms because those are the only norms they can get their head
> around.
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> Marcus
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